The Third Estate Sunday Review focuses on politics and culture. We're an online magazine. We don't play nice and we don't kiss butt. In the words of Tuesday Weld: "I do not ever want to be a huge star. Do you think I want a success? I refused "Bonnie and Clyde" because I was nursing at the time but also because deep down I knew that it was going to be a huge success. The same was true of "Bob and Carol and Fred and Sue" or whatever it was called. It reeked of success."

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

In April, I visited some of the almost 5,000 troops that President
Obama has put back in Iraq, and I witnessed a recurring theme: We have a
military plan to defeat the Islamic State — and, as initial gains in Fallujah this week
demonstrate, it’s going well in many respects — but we have yet to
articulate a political plan to ensure Iraq’s long-term stability.

Sometimes
it’s impossible to tell whether it’s 2007 or 2016. The battle plans I
hear from our commanders in Iraq today are the same ones I heard at the
beginning of the surge, down to the same cities and tribal alliances. My
question is: How will this time be different? The silence is deafening.

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